Big Sur will be both 10.16 and 11.0

Saagar Jha saagar at saagarjha.com
Wed Jul 22 03:29:25 UTC 2020


There is a /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist. But you shouldn’t really care anyways, since you were using the system APIs to access the version number and not reading from the plist directly, right? ;)

> On Jul 21, 2020, at 19:09, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Herby G wrote:
> 
>> Not sure if this has been posted previously or elsewhere, but as the title
>> says:
>> https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/
> 
> This is bizarre.  The numeric version appears in the system itself, in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist.  Will SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT somehow mangle the file contents?
> 
> Maybe it should have been code-named "Spinal Tap". :-)
> 
> Fred Wright



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